After 14 games in a Barça shirt, Ilkay Gündogan did not know what it was like to score a goal. That is not the function of a technical player whose greatest virtue is game creation. However, today's defensive pivot is not exempt from arrival, as demonstrated by the 11 goals he scored last season at Manchester City. In this one, he chose a very special day to debut, against Real Madrid in the Montjuïc classic.
Five minutes of the classic had been played and nothing had yet happened when Gündogan, three quarters of the field, connected with Ferran. He made a very timid wall but the ball hit Tchouameni and turned towards his goal. There Gündogan decided to believe and began a race in which he was at a disadvantage against Alaba. However, even though the Austrian arrived a second earlier, he did not do so forcefully enough. 'Gündo' managed to get the ball inside the area and beat Kepa from below.
Gündogan became the surprise guest of the classic. Firstly because he managed to score on the day when he was playing the furthest back. Xavi placed him at the base of the game, as a defensive pivot, instead of Oriol Romeu, a substitute on this occasion. That position made his presence in the opposing field much more difficult. The action of the goal has even more merit, in which he went very high to connect with his teammates.
In recent years, this midfielder called upon to organize Barça's game became one of City's important scorers. In the last three years he had scored 29 goals in the Premier League, eight in the last season. In the Barça team it took him several months to score the first goal, but he will never forget it.
